Dust-collector for cars.



No. 810,831. PATENTBD JAN. 23, 1906. G. F. WBIR. DUST COLLECTOR FORCARS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28. 1905.

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No. 810,831. PATENT-ED JAN. 23, 1906.

G. P. WBIR. DUST GOLIJSGTOR FOR CARS. APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 2s. 1905.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

l Application filed June 28,1905. Serial No. 267,417.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GEORGE F.WEIR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Elkhart, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Dust-Collectors for Cars, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements inl vwhat may be termeddust-collectors, applicable more particularly in connection withrailway-cars.

Objects of the invention are to provide for the ready and eectivecollecting of the dust caused or thrown u p by the action of the wheelsor car and to do this in a simple and inexpensive manner.

Said invention consists of the combination of the parts, including theirstructural features, substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed andspecifically noted;

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment ofmy invention, Figure l is a plan view of the same. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation view thereof, and Figs. 3 and 4 are plan and side views of afollowing car equipped with adjunctive members or parts of my invention.

In carrying out my invention I equip what may be called the lead orforward end car l wit-h collectors or chutes 2, one arranged at eachside at each end thereof opposite the trucks and their wheels forreceiving and collecting the dust thrown up by the action of the wheelsor cars. Said collectors or chutes are preferably rectangular in outlineand suitably secured laterally to the car, with their front and bottomends opening outward to receive the dust, the two at the forward end ofthe car terminating at their inner or rear ends into a common funnel ortapered portion 2, having itssmaller end connected, preferably, by anozzle 2b to a branch pipe 2c, extending diagonally and connected to anddelivering into an additional principal pipe-section 3, eX- tending thecomplete length of the car along one edge at the bottom thereof. Saidpipesection 3 is flexibly coupled to a corresponding pipe-section of thefollowing car and the latter pipe-section to a like pipe-section of athird car, the like pipe-section connection being observed throughoutthe entire train of cars, thus providing for delivering the dust at therear end of the train. 'Ihe collectors 2X at the opposite or rear end ofthe car have no connection with the dust discharging or conductingpipe-section 3. Upon the following car, Figs. 3 and 4, at each end andotherwise arranged as4 the dust-collectors at the forward end of thelead car are corresponding dust collectors or chutes 4 4M, and also uponthe opposite side of said following car is an additional pipe-section 5in like manner as pipe-section 3 of said lead car delivering ordischarging at the end of the train by like pipe-sections connectedtherewith and Aarranged upon the successive cars of the train. Said dustcollectors or chutes 4 themselves deliver via braneh pipes 4*L 4lo intothe pipe-sections 3 and 5, respectively, as shown, said branch pipes,however, extending in diagonally opposite directions from the deliveryends of their respective chutes or collectors.

It will be noted that when the lead car is reversed end for end theconnection of the pipe-section 3 is made with the pipe 5 of thefollowing car and the collector 4 previously in use put out of serviceand the collector 4Ml brought into requisition and the contents thereofdelivered via the pipe 4lu into the pipesection 5 and finally dischargedat the end of the train, as aforesaid.

A rotary blast-fan 6, adapted to be suitably driven from thetruck-wheels, has its housing or casing connected by a branchvpipe 6with the pipe-section 3 for creating a suction in the dust-collector ofthe lead car, the purpose of which is obvious. This adjunctive part orfan, however, is not necessary to the carrying out of my invention.

I claim- 1. A dust-collector for cars, comprising a chute arrangedlaterally and outside of the car-wheel truck. and effective to receivethe dust thrown up by th'e action of said wheels,

a lateral dust-conducting pipe arranged upon the car, and a diagonalbranch-pipe connection between said lateral pipe and said chute.

2. A dust-collector for cars, comprising a chute arranged laterally andoutside of the car-wheel truck, and effective to receive the dust thrownup by the action of said wheels, said chute having a tapered deliveryrear or inner end member, a lateral dust-conducting pipe-sectionarranged upon the car, and a diagonal branch pipe effecting connectionbetween said lateral dust-conducting pipe-section and said member.

3. A train dust-collector,comprising a chute arranged upon the lead car,laterally and outside of the wheel-truck, and effective to receive andcollect the dust thrown up by the action of the wheels, said car havinga lateral IIO pipe-section connected to said collectors and' followingcar equipped with like dust-collectors and lateral pipe-sections havingbranchpipe connections with the latter dust-collectors, the lateralpipe-sections of the lead car being interchangeably used with either olsaid latter pipe-sections of the following car.

4. A dust-collector for cars, comprisinga number of chutes arrangedlaterally and outside of the truck-wheels and opening downward toreceive the dust resulting from the action of the truck-wheels, alateral dust-conducting pipe-section upon the car, an upward andrearward tapered nozzle member fixed to and common with both of saidchutes, and a diagonal pipe connection between said tapered member andsaid lateral dust-conducting pipe.

v5. A dust-collector for cars, comprising a chute arranged upon the leadcar, laterally and outside of the forward truck-wheels and effective toreceive the dust resulting from the action of the car truck-wheels, alateral dustconducting pipe arranged upon the car, said chutes havingconnected or fixed to their delivery end an upward and laterally orrearward tapered nozzle member common to both of said chutes, andsimilar opposite end chutes arranged upon a following car each two ofthese latter chutes also having a common nozzle member, opposite lateraldust-conducting pipe-sections, and branch-pipe connections between saidnozzle members and said lateral dust-conducting pipe-sections arrangedto eX- tend in oppositely-diagonal directions from the respective nozzlemembers of said chutes. In testimony whereof I ax my signature inpresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE F. WEIR.

Witnesses:

PERRY L. TURNER, MERLE Do'rY.

